Virginia · Private foundation
The Cedars Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $319k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $71,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 55
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Cedars Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $318k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $364k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $315k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $399k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $23k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $294k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $298k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 51 | $211k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Conservancy | $310,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Resources for the Future Inc | $255,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $150,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Americans for Oxford Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Seachange Capital Partners Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Lsb Leakey Fdtn for Research Related to Human Origins Behavior and Survival | $107,750 | 7 | 1% |
| The Roosevelt Institute | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Valley Conservation Council | $86,500 | 7 | 7% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Henry L Stimson Center | $46,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($474k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cedars Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Cedars Foundation Inc
- How much does The Cedars Foundation Inc give?
- The Cedars Foundation Inc reported 34 grants totaling $319,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Cedars Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (32%), Education (17%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are The Cedars Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ocean Conservancy ($311k), Resources for the Future Inc ($255k), The Aspen Institute Inc ($151k).
- Does The Cedars Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cedars Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cedars Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ford Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation.
- Where is The Cedars Foundation Inc based?
- The Cedars Foundation Inc is based in VA.
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